Lieutenant Colonel D'Arcy Lemay

Chief of Experimentation at Directorate of Army Experimentation and Innovation Canadian Armed Forces

Lieutenant-Colonel Lemay joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2006 as a signal officer. Starting in the Army of the West he served as a troop commander and regimental signal officer. He assumed command of Support Squadron at the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics (CFSCE) and 3 Squadron at the Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment (CFJSR). He also served as the Deputy Commanding Officer of 21 Electronic Warfare (EW) Regiment.

At the operational level, his service includes several international deployments. This includes Afghanistan with Operation ATHENA in 2010 as the J6 Ops beginning the deployment in Task Force Kandahar and then following onto the Mission Transition Task Force. In 2017, he joined Roto 0 of Task Force Latvia HQ in Riga as the J6 within Operation REASSURANCE. In 2019, he took part in Operation KOBOLD as Chief of CIS Security for the NATO KFOR HQ in Kosovo. Domestically he deployed as the Task Force Vancouver Sig O with Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) for the 2010 Olympic Games. As a staff officer, he has gathered experience in positions at the tactical level in CFSCE, 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group and 3rd Canadian Division HQ of the CA. At the institutional level he has served in Director General Information Capabilities Force Development, and most recently, at Chief of Army Force Development where he serves as the Chief of Experimentation Services.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lemay is a graduate of Queen's University and Norwich University. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the former and a master's degree in Cyber Security from the latter.

He was promoted to his current rank in 2022.